Final Animation

Animation Stage 4

I have added in a reflections to the leaf

and i have added a path to the leaf reflection follows

the actual leaf and it looks realistic.

Animation Stage 3

I have now added the moon and the path of the moon
too, to make it appear to be moving across the screen

a little.

I have decided that i want the moon to be
 in the whole

animation so it will be in the beginning behind a building and

then it will gradually move across. 

I really like this idea and i think that it goes well with the 

idea. I think that the size of the moon works as well, i didn't

was it small.

I have added in a light and a dark red background 

to make the animation more effective and i have

then changed how the light moves.

At the beginning the light starts quite big, and it 

covers most of the page

as the animation progresses more i have made the light

get smaller and smaller but still follow the leaf

and finally, when the leaf hits the water the light 

is much smaller and makes the viewer

focus on the leaf. 

Animation Stage 2

I have now added in the water and the 

silhouette of the skyline

I have also added the yellow lights into the composition

and parented them with the building so that when the 

building moves to make the leaf appear to be falling further 

i want the lights to stay in perfect position.

I have made everything 3d so that that i can place everything

in layers. 

I have decided that i want to add in a reflection because

i want it to look more realistic, so i will create that once i

have made sure that the leafs path is right.

Animation Stage 1

Leaf And Branch

I have placed my leaf and Branch images into after effects

and i have placed them where i want them to start. 

I  want the branches to move and the leaf to fall in the zigzag. 

I have created the path for the leaf and

i have pinned the tree and moved each branch with each

second. I think it looks good, and allthough i will need to 

change the leafs path to make it more fluid it looks good. 

final Background

I have decided that i want to have a dark back

ground and then to have a cityscape in the
 background so that when the beats hit in the music

i will be able to have the lights coming on 

in the building as if they are waking up to watch

the leaf fall.

So i have decided that i will use a dark grey skyline 

silhouette. 

I have created this skyline, but i have only put windows in the 

sections that will be seen as the sides won't be used at all. 

I have also decided that i do want the leaf to fall into water so i have 

taken an image of some water. 

I have chosen water thats quite still and doesn't have too

much movement in it, so that i can make it work in my 

animation. 

I have then put it into photoshop and i have just used

the bottom section of the image.

I have also decided that i want the moon in my animation

but rather than having just a white circle, i want it to be a really

big moon where you can see all of the shading from

the craters because my leaf and tree aren't normal so i don't want 

to have an ordinary moon either.

I have taken the background out so that  i can make it follow a path

in after effects. 

Background ideas

I have created this brainstorm to give me ideas about how i will

be able to create a good background.

I want to use a few different pieces of imagery to make it look

effective. so i have thought about all the different areas

i could look at and then gone a bit further with them, 

with the placement of the branch and the leaf in mind.